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Thread: Half jackets anyone?

  1. 10-16-2018, 04:40 AM #1
    NathanHoln
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    Half jackets anyone?

    I am going to be firing up the Swag-o-Matic and it uses these half jackets (that for the past ten years I had been thinking were just freakishly large gas checks without putting much thought into it) but i only have 20 of them.
    Are they still available in any way or can they be made by relatively normal people with anything less than a machine shop?
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  2. 10-16-2018, 10:22 AM #2
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    I've seen vintage collections of half-jackets for sale in the S&S section on occasion.
    I don't know of anyone manufacturing and selling them?

    Here are a couple threads with some info on making them.

    http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...e-half-jackets

    http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...lf-jacket-dies

    PS, I moved your thread to "swaging", as the Gas check section isn't going to garner as many responses.
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  3. 10-16-2018, 11:38 AM #3
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    what caliber? I have about 200 .44 that I was trying to sell.
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  4. 10-16-2018, 03:52 PM #4
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    I use 50BMG spent primers as 3/4 jackets for an 85gr 32 cal swc for use in a couple of 7.62 x 25 pistols. I use a lyman 65gr 257 boolit as the core.
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  5. 10-16-2018, 03:54 PM #5
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    Dies are in 358
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  6. 10-19-2018, 09:29 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by rbuck351 View Post
    I use 50BMG spent primers as 3/4 jackets for an 85gr 32 cal swc for use in a couple of 7.62 x 25 pistols. I use a lyman 65gr 257 boolit as the core.
    How i dream of getting spent BMG primers to do something similar.... But BMG primers are rare as the rifles....And $1 each
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  7. 10-21-2018, 11:12 AM #7
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    I got most of my spent 50BMG primers from a guy in Fairbanks AK. He hangs out on Alaska Outdoor Forums by the name gunbugs. I gave him $30 for 3000 and he said he had a bunch more. You might try a line in the S&S on this forum. Quite a few folks shooting the 50 BMG and probably aren't using there spent primers.
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  8. 10-21-2018, 02:17 PM #8
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    I recently was at a gun show here in Rochester and there was a guy selling off his father in laws stuff, he had everything for swaging .38/.357 except the dies. About a 1000 half jackets, lead wire all sorts of stuff. I bought all the primer for less than .01 each.
    I wish I had more cash on hand I would've bought all and passed on what I didn't need here.
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  9. 11-26-2018, 11:05 PM #9
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    What lengths are you looking for? I may have some I would part with.
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